Top 400 Patricia Briggs Quotes (2026 Update)
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251. “You have a real gift for getting into trouble, don’t you? That was one thing I forgot when you left the pack.” “How is any of this my fault?” I asked hotly. He sighed. “I don’t know. Does it matter whose fault it is once you’re sitting in the middle of the frying pan?” He gave me a despairing look. “And as my father used to point out, you find your way into that frying pan way too often for it to be purely accidental.”

— Patricia Briggs

252. “Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.”

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253. “The hardest memory of slavery that Rialla had to bear was not the lack of freedom; it was the lack of desiring freedom.”

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254. “Dance when the moon sings, and don’t cry about troubles that haven’t yet come.”

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255. “I was going to have to come up with a rank for myself besides Alpha’s mate. In the pack, I was just Mercy- but if ten more people called me the Alpha’s mate, I was going to hit someone. It sounded like a chess move.”

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256. “Like most people who own their own businesses, I work long hours that start early in the morning. So when someone calls me in the middle of the night, they’d better be dying.”

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257. “He was a better fighter than I was, but he wasn’t faster than me. Nor was he as motivated, and I think he underestimated me. He thought he was fighting a girl with a stick when he was fighting Adam’s mate, Coyote’s daughter, armed with Lugh’s staff.”

— Patricia Briggs

258. “Trust you to bring a gun to a fistfight.”

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259. “Someday, I’m going to meet some supernatural creature who tells me everything I should know up front and in a forthright manner – but I’m not going to hold my breath.”

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260. “Charles looked at her thoughtfully. “People talk to you,” he said. “That could be useful.”

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261. “Mercy: “Can’t sleep with a dead man in my closet.” Ben: “You killed someone?” Ben asked with interest.”

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262. “Never starve a werewolf, or he might ask you to join him for lunch.”

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263. “I like what you’ve done to your face,” Ben said, tapping his eye.”

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264. “When I put magic into a book – whether it’s a wizard or a crusty old werewolf – I’m asking a reader to swallow a huge leap that is counter to everything he or she knows. An extra big helping of reality makes that leap go down a lot easier.”

— Patricia Briggs

265. “Sometimes I think I live more closely to the past than the present.”

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266. “One, one, two, zero,” I told him through the chattering of my teeth. “It’s my birthday.”

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267. “There are some things that honest, honorable people don’t do to the people they love. They don’t propose marriage on TV. They don’t bring home small cuddly animals without checking with their spouses first. And they don’t tell their ex-husband they love him in front of a crowd that includes their daughter and his current wife right before he goes off to almost certain death. It didn’t help that most of us could tell that she wasn’t lying.”

— Patricia Briggs

268. “When you turn something into stone, you take out the moisture that makes most of the bulk of flesh. A really good mage could turn you into a pebble,” said the really good mage before me.”

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269. “Only an evil man needs to fear a good man.”

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270. “But you can’t marry someone to fix him, even if you love them. And I didn’t love Samuel the way a woman should love her mate, the way I loved Adam. Samuel didn’t love me that way either. Close, but not quite. And except in horseshoes and hand grenades, close doesn’t count.”

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271. “I hope this means you’ll quit asking me to kill you. It gives me indigestion.”

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272. “And it was easier to have an unrequited love than to get all fussed and dressed and go out on dates every Saturday with men she was never going to fall in love with. So she’d quit dating, quit dressing up – and on the whole she was happier than she’d been before.”

— Patricia Briggs

273. “Once he started lying to me, it would be harder to get him to trust me with the truth.”

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274. “I was talking cannibalism, not romance.”

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275. “I blew out a breath, took a couple steps back, and flopped in one of the battered chairs that line the wall, trying, with my casual pose, to defuse the situation. “Adam, I don’t have a sense to be afraid of Sam in the state he’s in now. I don’t know why you think I’d be smart enough to be afraid of you.”

— Patricia Briggs

276. “Why was it that the people who made idiots of themselves immediately felt it necessary to compound their sins by flipping off the people who saved them from possibly fatal mistakes?”

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277. “I sat down in the middle. “So,” I said to Darryl, “do you think Korra is going to be as good an avatar as Aang?” “Who’s Aang?” he asked. “You started him with Korra?” I accused Jesse. “That’s not okay. It’s like reading the last chapter of the book first.”

— Patricia Briggs

278. “Why is it that in all the adventure movies the heroine doesn’t have to get up and go to work?”

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279. “Want to explain to the kid that I’m more a Spike than a Buffy? A villain, not a superhero?”

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280. “You scratch whatever itches you choose,” Charles told her, his voice cold and quiet.“Enjoy yourself. But at the end of the day, you remember that Isaac belongs to my father – and to me. He is necessary to us as you are not. You will leave him unharmed or I will hunt you down and destroy you.”

— Patricia Briggs

281. “Wolf Versus Street Sign, Street Sign Wins.”

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282. “If I ever become a serial murderer, I’ll be very careful to kill people in a pattern that centres around a police station – and not my home or work.”

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283. “I was in the middle of a dream about garbage cans and frogs – don’t ask, and I won’t tell.”

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284. “I’d be damned if I was going to be the victim of a loser – or anyone else.”

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285. “The Elders were closer to the Maker of All Things and should be deferred to whenever they made their will known.”

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286. “I see your fear, they told her, but no harm will come to you by me.”

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287. “She’d never have allowed herself to be held by anything as mundane as a few bars and a reinforced door.”

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288. “Three women bonding over household chores – my mother would be pleased if she could see us. That thought hardened my resolve that next week, some of the men would do cleanup. It would be good for them to expand their skill set.”

— Patricia Briggs

289. “Why was it that I was always trying to handle the werewolves instead of the other way around? Maybe because Adam’s other form had big claws and great big teeth.”

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290. “Most of the pack would rather have Darryl mad at them than Auriele.”

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291. “The problem was that she didn’t need rescuing, except maybe from them. The force of their concern, of their knowing that she had been a victim made her feel like a victim again.”

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292. “Charles asked me to stay here, she said, rather than confronting Hosteen with his lie. “You aren’t my Alpha-and even if you were, he can’t make me do anything, either.” She tappef herself in the chest with one of her needles and half sang, “Omega. Me.” Dropping into her own voice she said, “As an Omega wolf, I don’t have the urge to obey you. At all. Not even the tiniest bit. Don’t worry, it makes the Merrick crazy too.”

— Patricia Briggs

293. “Silence fell, and I remembered that I was supposed to be running this. It reminded me in an odd way of the time I’d had to take over my sister’s Girl Scout troop when my mother had been sick. Fourteen preteen girls, a tableful of werewolves – there were certain monstrous similarities.”

— Patricia Briggs

294. “After I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say “of course eating him would work too.”

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295. “We’re the good guys. That we’re scary doesn’t mean we’re the villains.”

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296. “People who say that vampires don’t care about anyone except themselves are mostly right – but sometimes they are very and lethally wrong.”

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297. “Zee? Are you all right?” The whole car rose about ten inches off the jacks, knocking them over on their sides, and shook like an epileptic. A wave of magic rose from the Buick, and I backed away, one hand locked in Gabriel’s shirt so he came with me as the car returned all the way to the ground with a bang of tires on pavement and the squeak of protesting shocks. “I feel better now,” said Zee in a very nasty tone. “I would be even happier if I could hang the last mechanic who worked on it.”

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298. “When he grew up, he wanted to be like Charles.”

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299. “Taking out werewolves, I gather and surmise, is akin to taking out a SEAL team.”

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300. “There’s something really disturbing about finding out how little you really know about something you felt like you were an expert on.”

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